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You should have known I’m a VIP, ex-governor boasts, assaults airport staff
BY NICHOLAS ABE
Former governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, has been accused by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) of violating the COVID-19 guidelines for air travellers, while travelling through the Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano State.
The FAAN management also lambasted Yari, former chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), of assaulting an airport staff who tried to get him to comply with the safety guidelines established by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.
Yari was said to have boasted with impunity that the helpless airport worker should have known he was a VIP.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, FAAN said it “strongly condemns the conduct of the former Governor of Zamfara State, Alh. Abdulaziz Yari who blatantly violated the Public Health procedures (#COVID19) on travels at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport on Saturday 11th July 2020.
“He refused to adhere to the protocols and procedures put in place by the Federal Government through the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on #COVID19 by forcefully pushing away an officer of the Environment department when he insisted that his luggage must be disinfected.
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“The former Governor said the officer should have known he is a VIP. This irresponsible act endangers all other airport users, it is unacceptable, and as such it has been duly escalated.
“FAAN hereby cautions all airport users, especially our esteemed VIPs, to please respect the Presidential directive by observing the Public Health travel protocols put in place to protect all air travellers against infection and the spread of the covid-19 pandemic.”